Hi,

I am using the command above for several occasions, but to be honest, I don't know what exactly the command is doing but of course, I want to know

What I mean :

On a gameserver I use

find /ut/Maps/* -exec ./ucc-bin compress '{}' -nohomedir \;

to execute ./ucc-bin compress on files which are in /ut/Maps/

Someone gave me the command which is working great, but still :

What ist

'{}' -nohomedir \; doing there ?

I'm a little surprised at the trailing '*' in the path you give. Well, you say it works, so...

find /ut/Maps/ -exec ./ucc-bin compress '{}' -nohomedir \;

means:

find [in] /ut/Maps/ [any file, link, or directory, and for each of those] -exec[ute the binary that lives in the current directory] ./ [and is named] ucc-bin [. Give it the following parameters: 1st parameter:] compress [2nd parameter:] '{}' [where {} stands for the current file/dir/link/... that was previously found; 3rd parameter:] -nohomedir [and that's all, as indicated by:] \; [, which is escaped using \ so that bash (the shell) does not interpret it.]

Yves.

WOW, that makes sences now

Thanks for the fast reply